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Crown octavo. Pp. iv, 181, (2). Hardcover, recently bound in cloth and patterned boards with the original wrapper laid-down, this bit rubbed, institutional stamp to first free endpaper. In fine condition. ~ First edition.
Three volumes bound in four. Including appendices, corrections and Register. Royal octavo. Pp. xxiv, 496, 22; viii, 659, 20; 536; viii, 537-784, 30, (2), 46, 152. Engraved title-page to each volume. Plus 6 folding lithographed maps: 2 bound in Vol. II; 2 bound in Vol. III, all with colours added by hand to show troop positions; and 2 bound in Vol. IV. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary calf and marbled boards, cloth French corners, spines lettered and decorated in gilt; old institutional stamps to each title and old shelf ticket to each spine. Binding is mediocre though still shelf representable with spines mostly loose and reinforced with clear tape; inner hinges split. In a very good internal condition, very good maps. ~ First edition of this famous work. The hand-coloured maps depict famous battlefields: "Slag bij Ramelies," "Slag bij Malplaquet," "Gevecht bij Quatre-Bras," "Slag bij Waterloo." The last two maps are monochromatic. One shows the "Tiendaagschen Veldtogt in 1831", and one is the fortification plan of the Citadel of Antwerp with armies' positions during the battle in 1832.
Crown octavo. Pp. x, 206. Hardcover, bound in the original blind decorated cloth, spine gilt, upper joint split, old shelf ticket, old institutional stamp and signature to title, few annotations in very neat contemporary hand, shaken, contents loosening. Binding in poor condition, interior in good condition. ~ First edition. Very rare. This particular copy is accompanied by an extended archive of contemporary manuscript notes which relate to the book, summarize from it or elaborate on it. Written in Dutch in extremely neat hand they encompass a large number of paper slips, extracts from notes and the like. All neatly preserved they provide a fascinating look into the way contemporary law practitioners interpreted the laws of the time and are of value to historians of military law. Pierre Paul Chrétien Collette, (1858-1928), member of the Supreme Military Court, Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
Crown quarto. Pp. (vi), iv, vii, (i), iv, (ii), 720, 40, 20, viii, ii. Half-title, title, dedication, preface, introduction. Extra title-page, illustrated with allegorical motifs and printed in tinted lithograph. Plus 2 handsome plates in tinted lithograph, depicting battle scenes, and 3 fine lithographic portraits, all with facing tissue guards. Plus one full-page lithograph ordnance map with additional colour added by contemporary hand. Plus 6 large folding lithograph maps, one with additional colours added by contemporary hand to represent troop positions, all bound at rear. With 2 engraved maps, printed in letterpress, to the text. Footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, 2 contrasting gilt morocco lettering-pieces to spine, old small ticket at foot, bit worn at extremities, rubbed and chafed; old military institutional stamps to half-title. Bit foxed in places, few light dampmarks at margin, else a good copy with well preserved interior and folding maps. ~ First edition. [Descriptive text Copyright Librarium, The Hague]
Octavo. Pp. iv, 246, (2) extended errata. Plus folding map bound at end. Hardcover, bound in contemporary cloth and marbled boards, manuscript title to spine; very old military institutional stamps to title. In a very good condition. ~ First edition thus. George Frederik Willem Borel published his controversial "Onze vestiging in Atjeh" a year earlier, in 1878.
Two volumes. I. Text: Royal octavo. Pp. 68. Original stiff wrappers, soiled, old military institutional stamps to cover. In good condition; II. Atlas: Small folio. Comprising of title-page and 15 plates with numerous illustrations to each, partly lithographic and partly photographic. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's cloth and printed boards, these bit discoloured, old shelf ticket to spine, old military institutional stamps to title, first plate bit browned. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Text volume is second printing. Rare complete set. The Atlas comprises of numerous fine and very detailed technical illustrations of guns and cannons and their parts, accompanied by nomenclatures and extended explanations and measurements. Includes 29 rare photographic impressions of horse-drawn military vehicles.
Four parts in one volume. Quarto Pp. 8; 54; 64; 82. Plus very large folding sheet with several graphic illustrations, diagrams, tables, printed in additional colours. Hardcover, bound in the original cloth and printed boards, shelf tickets to spine, large title in manuscript on cover, some annotations, bit soiled in places, old institutional stamp to verso of title-page. In good condition with crisp folding visual material. ~ First edition. Comprising of Chapter I, Appendices A-F; Chapter II, Appendices I-VII.
Small octavo. Pp. 112. Index. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's cloth and printed boards, shelf label to spine, ticket on back cover; old military institutional stamps. In fine condition. ~ First edition.
Paris, Basset, 1842, grande e bella carta geografica incisa in acciaio con i confini colorati a mano. Si tratta di due fogli uniti lungo una linea che rimane al centro della carta complessiva. Mm. 830x595 (i due fogli uniti), mm. 755x520 (le misure alla cornice della carta).
Two parts in one volume. Royal octavo. Pp. xxix, (iii), 373. Plus an extended section of model forms, lists, and tables, unpaginated (ca. 160 pp.). Numerous sectional title-pages. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, original printed wrapper laid-down; shelf tickets to spine, old institutional stamps to title-page. In a very good condition, fine interior. ~ Third edition. First published Batavia, Ogilvie, 1891.
Volumes one and three show spine pieces missing to title and volume info. Wear to extremities ; Three-quarter leather with marbled design, endpapers, and edges. Decorated spines with five raised bands. Originally published in 1856, an extremely detailed look at the founding and flourishing of the Dutch Republic ; 8vo; 579,582,664 pages
Octavo. Pp. (viii), (ii) divisional title, (34), 30. Engraved heraldic illustration to title. Bound in contemporary decorative wrappers, minute chips to spine ends. In fine condition. Excellent wide-margined copy, very brightly preserved. ~ Rare.
Three volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xiv, 341; xiii, 343-938; 741. Folding tables. Addition and correction sheets laid in. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original cloth backed boards. In fine condition. Excellent set, practically unused. ~ Seventh edition. 1814-1940; 1941-1948; 1950.
Sixième édition, 1 vol. in-12 br., Seghers, Paris, 1965, 121 pp. Exemplaire dédicacé par Louis Aragon. Bon état (petit frott. en couv.) Français
In 8, pp. 23 + (1b). Capilettera e finalini xilogr. Forellino a 3 cc. interne con perdita di qualche lettera del testo. Leggera gora al marg. int. delle cc. Br. rifatta con carta d'epoca. Rara opera anonima contenente un'arringa da parte di un patriota olandese contro la Francia a seguito dell'invasione dei Paesi Bassi austriaci nel maggio del 1744 da parte dell'armata di Luigi XV. Conlon, 'Siecle des lumieres: bibliographie chronologique', p. 440. 'Catalogus van de Boekerij der Koninklijke Akademie...', II, 3521.
2 tomes reliés en un volume petit in-12, plein vélin ivoire cordé à petits rabats de l'époque, 160, (2) p. et (1) f. blanc, 242, (2) p. Traduction française de : "La Verità vendicata da i sofismi di Francia" rédigé par un abbé résident de l'Empereur à Venise, Domenico Federici, publié pendant les événements même de la "guerre de Dévolution". "A propos de la renonciation de Marie Thérèse au trône espagnol, il examine tous les arguments qu'on peut alléguer pour ou contre. Puis, après avoir discuté la question des droits de la reine aux Pays-Bas, il conclut qu'elle ne peut en avoir aucun. Cet exposé est appuyé sur de nombreux textes et sur des pièces [publiés en appendice]" ('Sources de l'Histoire de France', 8735). Willems ('Elzevier', 1809) souligne la qualité matérielle de cette édition qu'il distingue de deux autres "beaucoup moins belles" publiées à la même date. ('Les traductions de l'italien en français au XVIIe siècle', PUPS, 2001, p. 235). Très bon exemplaire.
Crown octavo. Pp. 116. Plus 4 sketch maps and plans lithographed on large folding sheet bound at end. Plus frontispiece with 3 hand-drawn portraits, and 4 folding plates tipped-in, one loosely inserted. Original nicely illustrated wrappers, spine frayed, small old signature at corner of cover. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Extremely scarce in the original illustrated wrappers.
Two volumes. Quarto. I. Text. Pp. 63, xiv, plus 20 plates printed in fine tinted collotype on 10 leaves; II. Portfolio containing 42 leaves of plates with a total of 1060 portraits printed in fine collotype, each numbered at top right corner in neat contemporary hand and bears small unobtrusive stamp on verso. The first leaf is a decorative composite portrait of the Battalion's commanders. Hardcover, uniformly bound in red half cloth and printed boards, lettered and decorated in red and black, old small shelf ticket in matching colour, institutional stamp inside. In a very good condition, fine plates. ~ First edition. Printed by the Amsterdam collotype printing firm of Van Dias. [ADDED:] Original leaflet by Engelbrecht and Anemaet which accompanied the presentation of the first volume to the Subscribers. It announces their decision to issue this publication in two volumes, the 2nd to be followed in a later date. Each Subscriber is kindly requested to remit a total of 4 Dutch Guilders in order to cover the unexpected extra costs. ~ Beautifully illustrated. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms.
Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 105. Plus frontispiece portrait. Plus folding lithographic map printed in colour bound at end. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt, faded old military institutional stamp to title. In fine condition. ~ First edition. Frederik Henri Alexander Sabron, (1849-1916). Dutch officer, historian and politician, Minister of War in 1908.
pp. 16 + Plus Thirty-seven high quality photo engravings. Wide margins. Uncut. Folio. Original full gold stamped green cloth binding, very slightly worn. Widener family copy of an important catalogue of French and Dutch Masters. 38 works catalogued; most illustrated in lovely black and white plates. Among the artists represented: Akkeringa, Jules Dupre. Bosboom, Corot, Daubigny, Jozef Israels, Jean Francois Millet, Albert Neuhuys and Troyon. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ART 3
8vo.,, title lightly spotted; strongly bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, backstrip with black leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, green endpapers, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably bright, fresh copy in sympathetically strengthened period binding. With the fine nineteenth-century pictorial bookplate of St. Johns Seminary, Wonersh on front pastedown, and small personal book-label on front free endpaper verso. VERY SCARCE.
xiii, 158 pp. Index. 25 x 16cm. Numerous small maps in text. Fold-out maps of Amsterdam and Rotterdam Harbour. Back pocket contains a 74 x 76cm two-colour map, in very good condition, entitled Dutch Waterways which indicates 24 rivers and 265 canals. "The following notes, made at various times in view of, and in the course of, successive yachting trips to Holland during the last ten years, are put together for publication in the hope that they may prove useful to those who may contemplate similar excursions. Probably no part of Europe affords ampler opportunities of enjoyment to the yachtsman who seeks to combine the charm and freshness of foreign travel with the quiet pleasure that springs from navigating his own vessel. Holland, indeed, is best seen and studied from its waterways." - Introduction. Somewhat above-average wear to publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. Back hinge starting. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Narrow opening in binding at page 48. A worthy vintage copy. Book
304 pages. Text in Dutch. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos. Gift greetings upon first blank leaf. Writing beneath photo on page 74. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Pages 386-450 plus 12 pages of lovely nostalgic ads. Features: The Land of the Girl Queen (The Netherlands/Holland) - article with nice photos; The Paintings of Madame F. Bries; Moonlight - short story; The Parent and the Nervous Child; The Meloon Farm (continued); Midsummer Fashions - with great illustrations; Cut Paper Patterns; June Days in Paris; Club Life in Women's Colleges - article with photos of Miss Annie Lyndesay Wilkinson, Miss Grace Lattimer Jones, Miss Bertha Wendell Groesbeck and Miss Sarah Watson Sanderson; The 20th Century Baby, Part VII - His Amusements; Answers to Mothers; The Summer Girl's Complexion; Windows and Their Decoration; Recipes for Warm Days; News of the Women's Clubs; Nice one-page ad for Waltere Baker & Co. Cocaos and Chocolates; and more. Covers detached but present. Few library markings. Average wear. A worthy copy of this charmming vintage issue. Book
Vintage French-language magazine. Cover photo shows a smiling Chinese man with drugs hidden inside a dead rat with the caption 'Les Contrebandiers de la Drogue". Contents: Le Capitaine Phoebus (fin); Le Circuit de Minuit (Acte II); Le Jubile de la Reine Wilhelmine; La Vie des Dames de Pierre; Un Drame Des Journees de Juin (fin); Bidon v Ouvre la Chasse; Les Contrebandiers de la Drogue; Coiffes et Recettes; Pages Oubliees - Le Cure de Vireloup; Cote <Cours>; Marie-Antoinette a Versailles; Le M'Zab Pays du Mystere; Payes Vos Gages!; Trois Minutes avec les Humoristes en vacances. Photos: La Famille Royale; La petie princesse Beatrice de Hollande; La reine et la princesse Juliana; A-F Goachetti dans le role de Verdi. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Pieces of red tape at top and bottom of backstrip. Book
